Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. How can you boost your financial acumen? How do you decide which concepts are most important to understand to your work and your understanding of the business? Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. What the Experts Say. Overcome your fears.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

Consider GM as a case study. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. Even today, GM has record recalls.

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Emotional Intelligence Study Leadership Finance 88

Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. Many of you have heard about interviewer-led and interviewee-led case interviews and are wondering how to approach each one appropriately.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. What made their ascent possible? And what factors helped or hindered advancement in their organization?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. They try to address more objectives than are reasonable for any software system.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

These concerns raise the following questions: how can investors – whether venture capital and private equity firms, or public-market investors – accurately assess the true underlying financial valuation of these businesses? Case Study: Blue Apron. that aggregate sales in the U.S.

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Methodologies How To Metrics Sales 28